good morning, john. so trump s advisers are a little split here. i think the thinking has always been he would have, basically, a traditional rollout after the midterms. some of them are now saying they d really like to see him get engaged, get involved, and announce a campaign as early as this summer. two sources i talked to said they ve been asked informally to hold july 4th as a possible date for a launch event for trump s 2024 campaign, although jason miller, one of his advisers, told me that was not true. that wasn t going to happen. miller is one of the people who is urging him to go earlier. yeah, july 4th, mind you, less than a month away. that d be an early launch. what impact does this speculation about trump and the sense he might jump in have on those other gop candidates eyeing november, including florida governor ron desantis looking at 2024? if he jumps in, will it convince a lot of them not to do the
at a colorado conservative conference saturday, florida governor desantis once again bested former president trump in a straw poll for the 2024 presidential election. attendees at the western conservative summit, organized by the centennial institute, were asked about 31 possible 2014 presidential contenders. desantis came out on top with 74% of the votes, while trump got 71% in this straw poll. joining us now, senior politics reporter for nbc news digital, jonathan allen. great to see you this morning. you ve got some new reporting about donald trump. in it, you make clear that he has not yet made his final decision about running in 2024, but lots of momentum saying he will. there might even be a date on the horizon, near horizon, when he announces he will. tell us about it. absolutely.
same? probably but not all of them. the problem for desantis, he s on the ballot this year for governor of florida. he can t start running for president before his election in florida, meaning trump has a window between now and the election date to get in before desantis, which might have the effect of boxing desantis out. most people believe desantis is the person who is strongest other than trump right now in the republican circles. of course, early. we ve seen straw winners before, like former president ron paul and former president michelle bachman. take the straw polls with a grain of salt, but it is certainly true when you talk to republican voters. there s a lot of energy for desantis. trump wants to take that oxygen away from him before it becomes a conflict. thank you for underscoring the perhaps lack of importance of some of the straw polls. one more for you. i have a new story out today about the confluence of crises battering the white house right
now, many of them outside of the president s control. whether it is gas prices, inflation, war on russia, the impending scotus decision on roe v. wade, the list goes on and on, fueling frustration in the building as they are trying to show the american people they care, trying to show incremental progress here. how much is the biden decision, because speculation begun around him, as well, whether he will run in 2024, though they stated publicly he will, if biden jumps in, how likely is it for trump? how do they play off each other? trump would love a rematch against biden. he says that he won erroneously. believes he would have won without the challenges of the actual 2020 election and would like to defeat biden and sort of take vengeance. you know, biden, i think, also sees himself as the only person that can defeat trump, having done it. they are intertwined, as you suggest. great reporting there by the reporter for politico.
screen here of hannity. we can move away from jesse watters, blessedly, and move on to sean hannity, so much more pleasant a topic. this is the 1/6 committee put out some of these texts. there s a bunch of them here over a bunch of dates at the end of 2020 and into early 2021. here s hannity writing to trump. or writing to people in the white house. december 31, we can t lose the entire white house counsel s office. i do not see january 6th happening the way he is being told, meaning trump. after the 6th, he should announce he will lead the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity, go to florida, watch joe mess up daily. stay engaged. when he speaks, people will listen. january 5th, pence pressure, white house counsel will leave. to meadows and jordan, he writes, guys, we have a clear path to land the plane. he can t mention the election again ever. i did not have a good call with